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• April 27, 2026

  New Legislation May Be Necessary To Fix Flawed Cox Ruling

  The U.S. Supreme Court's opinion in Cox v. Sony erroneously limited the doctrine of contributory copyright infringement and effectively eliminated such liability for internet service providers, and the most viable option to remedy the damage is to codify the pre-Cox common law of contributory copyright infringement, says Michael Cicero at Mavacy.

• April 27, 2026

  Albright Exits Verizon Case Over Ties To Patent Owner

  U.S. District Judge Alan Albright has dropped out of overseeing a case in which Verizon is suing a patent holding company for allegedly trying to dodge a more than $500,000 attorney fee award, citing communications with the patent holder from a decade ago.

• April 27, 2026

  Insurer Says No Coverage For $7.5M Sewage Spill Suit

  An insurer told a Florida federal court it owes no coverage to a drilling subcontractor or a telecommunications construction company in a $7.5 million suit over the discharge of millions of gallons of raw sewage, saying the coverage is barred by the policies' absolute pollution exclusion.

• April 24, 2026

  Justices To Focus On Alien Tort Statute In Cisco Spying Case

  The U.S. Supreme Court will hear a case on Tuesday with implications for U.S. companies doing business with foreign governments, and decide whether the Ninth Circuit was right to reinstate an Alien Tort Statute suit alleging that Cisco Systems Inc. helped the Chinese government's allegedly unlawful crackdown on the Falun Gong religious movement.

• April 24, 2026

  Hikvision Lacks Standing In FCC Fight, DC Circ. Told

  Hikvision doesn't have the standing to take the Federal Communications Commission to court over its decision to place modular transmitters on the so-called covered list, a list of equipment deemed to pose a national security risk, the agency told the D.C. Circuit.

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